Nail-holding attachment.



J. R. MORRISON.

NAIL HOLDING ATTACHMENT.

.urmouron FILED M125, 1909.

976,679. Patented Nov. 22, 1910.

In nu 8 UltlITEM STATES. PATENT @FFIQE.

JOHN R. MORRISON, OF I-IERMOSA BEACH, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALFTO IRA DELOS MOON, OF AZUSA, CALIFORNIA.

NAIL-HOLDING ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 22, 1910.

Application filed. May 25, 1909. Serial No. 498,123.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN R. MORRISON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Hermosa Beach, in the county of Los Angeles and State ofCalifornia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Nail-HoldingAttachments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to hammers.

The object of the invention is to provide a hammer having a novel formof attachment for holding a nail in position to start it in the wood,thereby obviating the neces sity of holding it in the fingers, thehammer being especially useful in starting nails in inaccessible places,or at points at such height above the operator as to preclude reaching adesired spot without a ladder or the like.

A further object of the invention is to provide a nail holdingattachment for hammers, which shall be so constructed and arranged, asto readily receive and positively hold the nail, and which will notinterfere with the ordinary use of the hammer, and will not present anyresistance to disconnection from the nail by a natural movement of thehand that holds the hammer, after the nail has been set.

With the above and other objects in View, as will appear as the natureof the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novelconstruction and combination of parts of a nail holding attachment forhammers, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, andin which like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts:Figure l is a view in side elevation of a hammer head equipped with theimprovement of the present invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectionalview taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a similar View on theline 3-3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a perspective detail view of the nailholding clip.

Referring to the drawings, there is shown in Fig. 1 an ordinary form ofcarpenters hammer embodying an eye 1 and claw 2 and a poll 3. As hereinshown the poll is provided with an enlarged striking face 4, but this isnot essential as the poll may be of the ordinary taper type. Arranged inthe up per face of the poll, adjacent to its striking face, is a socket5 that is engaged by a pin 6 carried by a fiat open coiled spring 7 thatis adapted to encircle the poll of the hammer head and constitutes thenail holding clip. The pin 6, is detachably seated in the socket inorder to permit the removal of the clip when desired, and providingmeans whereby the tool can be readily transformed by reversing the clipso as to be effectively used by either a right or left hand operator.

As shown in Fig. 4:, the clip is composed of about one and three-quarterturns, the object of this arrangement being to cause the outer coil tohold the pin in position while the inner coil holds the clip in positionon the poll of the hammer head. The outer terminal 8 of the spring isslightly spaced from the adjacent coil and is outturned to facilitateinsertion of the nail N to position, and also to permit of the clipbeing readily disconnected from the nail when the same is seated. Inorder to hold the nail properly assembled with the poll, the latter isprovided on its under side with a longitudinal groove 9 in which theshank of the nail rests, and its eye is provided at its point ofjuncture with the poll with a flat nail head rest 10 which will operateto facilitate in the proper seating of a nail.

In the use of the hammer, the nail is slipped in between the outerterminal of the clip and rests in the groove 9 with its head against therest 10 whereon it may be seated for driving. As soon as the nail hasbeen seated in the wood, a lateral movement of the handle will causedisconnection between the nail and the clip whereupon the former may bedriven to its seat.

From the foregoing description, it will be seen that in order to adaptthe clip for use in connection with an ordinary hammer it will only benecessary to provide the former with a socket 5, groove 9 and nail seat10, and this may be done by any person of ordinary mechanical ability.To change the tool from right to left hand form, or vice versa, the clipwill simply be removed, turned over and replaced.

I claim 1. A nail holding attachment for hammers consisting'of an openspiral spring coil exceeding one complete turn and adapted to be sprungover the poll of a hammer head and to receive a nail intermediate twoadjacent turns of the coil.

2. A nail holding clip consisting of an open spiral spring coil adaptedto encircle the poll of a hammer head, and exceeding one complete turnand having the terminal of its outer coil bent'outward from the adjacentinner coil.

3. A hammer having a poll provided With a recess in combination with anail holding clip consisting of an open spiral spring coil exceeding onecomplete turn and adapted to encircle the poll of the hammer head, saidcoil being provided adjacent to the terminal of its inner coil with apin engaging the rece l. A hammer having a poll provided with a nailseating groove and a recess, in conibination With a nail holding clipconsisting of a spring coil exceeding one complete turn encircling thepoll and having adjacent to the terminal of its inner coil a pinengaging the recess; the terminal of the outer coil being bent outwardfrom the adjacent inner coil.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

JOHN R. MORRISON. Vitnesses:

I. D. Moon, H. O. .RAABE.

